You just got a new subscriber! I have lots of these cuttings in water, they grow like crazy and I got them from a big one nobody took care of in my office. I did not know the name of the plant so now I know what to do with them. Thank you so much!🌿🌱🪴
We love them too! They are hard to kill and produce so many babies! We started just taking clippings and shoving them in the ground with 100% success rate. We don’t have the heart to toss any in the trash so we have dozens now!
I have a question...Can you cut the top out of a very tall main plant and will that top root in water or soil AND will it regrow or bush out from where you made the cut? Any advice might help. Thanks, Mike in Jackson, TN,, Zone 7b, west Tennessee.
Yes. Make sure the part of the bougie you are planning to root is not green. Take the cutting and keep it in indirect light and humid. Use a plastic bag to create humidity. Or split the branch with a diagonal cut, wrap the cut in soil and then wrap the soil with plastic and tie the ends of the plastic.
@gardenmix656 Thank you! I've already done the cut, rooted it in a jar of water outdoors in the shade on my deck and planted now in organic compost & manure. Doing well and putting out new growth. Many Thanks!
It could. There are specific conditions it needs to root. Indirect light and humidity. I haven’t been really successful in rooting cuttings. I’ve seen it done but I haven’t got the humidity level right. My cuttings typically get mold (too much humidity) or dry out (not enough humidity). I’ve been successful on a small scale and got some cutting to root a little bit but eventually they die. Rooting hormone is one method and another is to stick the cutting into a piece of aloe and plant. Those two methods aid in root development but there is still the issue of humidity. In my zone (9) humidity can be at 100% in the summer so the best time to take cuttings for me is spring. The plants will have a natural growth spurt and I can control the humidity better. The best success I’ve have with rooting cutting is cutting a branch diagonally half way, stuffing the wound with soil, covering the outside of the wound with more moist soils and then wrapping it in plastic and tiring off. In a couple months roots form and you just cut right below the wrapped plastic, remove plastic (use care, roots will be fragile) and plant. No leaves drop!
Decorative. For potting arrangements they tend to look the best with a filler, thriller and a spiller. This one I use as a thriller along with an additional spiller.
